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Clio's Psyche
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Lloyd DeMause
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Apr 19, 2007 20:35 PDT
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Clio's Psyche Call for Papers
Presidential Candidates 2008
Papers to be submitted by October 10th for the December 2007 issue
Bob Lentz, Guest Editor
Dear Colleague,
With the 2008 presidential race wide open for both Democrats and
Republicans there is a very large field of candidates and an
extraordinary
amount of interest in the election. This attention is compounded by
intense
feelings about the war in Iraq and the move to an early selection of the
nominees by moving up the primaries to February in major states such as
California and New York. The "money race" is so intense that Hillary
Rodham
Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama together raised over 50 million
dollars by
the beginning of April 2007. Right now the media is focusing on them as
well as John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, and Mitt Romney.
Ethnicity, gender, race, and religion are some of the unusual variety of
issues in the primaries. Internet fundraising and the blogosphere are
newer, unpredictable influences on the election.
Since 1976 I have been researching presidential candidates,
primaries, presidents, and presidential elections, focusing on
psychobiographical studies minus psychoanalytic and psychological
terminology. Since the beginning of the Psychohistory Forum in the
early
1980s we have been holding meetings on the subject and we have been
publishing articles on it since our journal came into existence in 1994.
We would like to invite you and other colleagues to probe the
subject for the December 2007 issue of Clio's Psyche: Understanding the
'Why' of Culture, Current Events, History, and Society. We welcome
different types of submissions, including case studies, with
psychological
insights on a variety of aspects of the election such as:
- Psychobiographical sketches of Clinton, Edwards, Giuliani,
McCain, Obama, Richardson, and Romney
- The narcissism of minor differences: hopes and fears for a
woman or a racially or ethnically different presidential candidate
- The relationship between the leader and the led in the
2008 election
- Free associations and other speculations on the election
by political psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychohistorians, and
psychohistorically informed scholars
- Comparing the impacts of Vietnam and Iraq on presidential
politics
- Politics as a family affair: Bushes, Clintons, Dodds,
Gores, and Romneys
- The "father" in the campaign: Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.,
son of a black African Muslim father and of a Muslim step-father, wrote
Dreams from My Father; John McCain wrote Faith of My Fathers
- "Half" perhaps more acceptable than whole-Obama: black
father and white mother; Richardson: Mexican mother and American father
- How Republican candidates relate to President Bush and his
policies
- Religion in the campaign: Huckabee (Baptist minister),
Romney (Mormon), and why we have had only one Catholic president
- The best president we never had: why people like Collin
Powell do not run for president
- Which candidate(s) can break through political denial on
issues such as Iraq, civil liberty abuses, debt, social security, health
care, dependence on oil, and global warming
- Life imitating entertainment "art"-on "West Wing," a
Hispanic president; on "Commander in Chief," a woman president; and
on "24,"
two African American presidents
- Nostalgia for Bill Clinton and his relationship with
Hilary
- Perils of verbal (and non-verbal) slips along the campaign
trail - for example, George Romney's "brainwashing" on Vietnam; why the
country/media forgives some but not others
- Cycles in American politics
- The mood of the voters-the energized and the stay-at-home
non-voters
- Films on elections
- Psychobiographical insights from candidates' books, such
as Clinton, Living History and It Takes a Village; Gingrich,
Rediscovering
God in America; Giuliani, Leadership; Gore: An Inconvenient Truth;
McCain,
Faith of My Fathers and Worth the Fighting For; and Obama, The
Audacity of
Hope and Dreams from My Father
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We are seeking articles from 500-1500 words-including your brief
biography-by October 10 for our December issue. Expressions of
interest and
preferably an abstract or outline prior to July 1 are requested to be
sent
to our Guest Editor for this Special Issue, Bob Lentz, at
len-@telusplanet.net. Articles should be e-mailed as attached
Microsoft
Word documents or rich text format (*.rtf) files.
It is the style of our scholarly quarterly to publish thought-provoking,
clearly written articles based upon psychological insight, developed
with
examples from history, current events, and the human experience. We are
open to all psychological approaches and prefer that articles be
personalized, without psychoanalytic/psychological terminology or
jargon and
without foot/endnotes or a bibliography. We have recently started a
policy
of accepting one long article (3,000-5,000 words) per issue provided
it is
eminently insightful and readable. Submissions the editors deem
suitable
are anonymously refereed.
I hope you can join this important endeavor. Many of our subscribers
tell
us that they find our publication to be a lively, compelling read that
provides in-depth analyses. Please forward this Call for Papers to any
colleagues (including associations or electronic mailing lists) who
may be
interested. If you have any questions, please e-mail Bob Lentz at
len-@telusplanet.net.
Clio's Psyche is a scholarly journal in its 14th year of
publication. It is
published by the Psychohistory Forum, an organization of academics,
therapists, and laypeople, founded 24 years ago and holding regular
scholarly meetings in Manhattan and at international conventions.
Visit our
Web site at www.cliospsyche.org.
Sincerely yours,
Paul H. Elovitz, PhD, Historian, Psychoanalyst, Professor, and Editor,
Clio's Psyche
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